adjournment

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adjournment

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From Middle English ajournement, from Old French ajornement, from ajourner (“to postpone”) + -ment. Equivalent to adjourn + -ment. Doublet of aggiornamento.

noun adjournments

  1. countable, uncountable The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning. At midnight we made a motion for adjournment and everyone went home tired.
  2. countable, rhetoric, uncountable Ampliatio.

Similar: procrastination

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